My kestrel persona, Kirby from Cascade Raptor Center, selects her favorite pictures from the blog over the last year. This set of photos are her ‘almost favorites’ … they were good, but not quite good enough. Often, the subject or content was really good, but the photo quality stretched. Full resolution photos are posted at…
I ended up hiking my third selection after discarding the other 2 due to too much driving for their experiences. Spencer Butte had not been hiked in weeks, so logically Ridgeline Trail from Spring Blvd starting early in morning. From Spring Blvd at 6:22, it was straight to Spencer Butte summit with headlamp on between…
Another very short break in winter weather in the valley but fog – thick in places. Went to bed contemplating 3 hikes, and then with the morning weather – cloud cover and fog – decided a Pisgah Ramble was the right choice. I left the West trailhead before 6:30am with 8 cars in the parking…
The camera can say it better – all taken Mon, 11-17
Weather peeps said maybe rain early and then fog later but not cold … good weather for November 🙂 … but, I just couldn’t get in a car. So I headed for the bark dust trail (Pre’s Trail) along the Mill Race and Willamette River. Walking along the water early in the morning landscapes are…
With a break in the atmospheric river dumping rain on PNW, getting out in the woods sounded perfect, but I didn’t want to drive. (After driving back – forth from PDX last week.) Ran through the mental exercise of comparing near-by locations by number of anticipated humans, probability of wildlife and a good set of…
An atmospheric river of rain pointed at the PNW argued for heading outdoors within any seam in the storms. Tuesday was just such a day, but I just couldn’t get in a car to drive … so Pre’s Trails along the Mill Race and then on to the WIllamette River. Along the Mill Race, the…
All week, the mornings were cold less than 40 with wind that made it feel much, much colder. Every morning with headlamp on, deer went back and forth from fields to woods; cars zoomed like idiots. One just barely missed a deer, one car hit another, but the deer survived and ran off. Reminder: Clicking…
T-storms rolled in on Sunday, and then Monday and Tuesday morning, the sunrise was perfectly clear under a new moon. Monday, on the south side of one lake are two farms situated on a knoll looking east … that tree I’ve photographed more than any other tree – it just catches the sun as it…
Nothing like midwest thunderstorms to bring weirdly unstable air, clouds and wonderful sunrises. Before the sunrise, a few clouds, and a sliver of a moon … As the sun rose, different clouds rolled in and the sun went back and forth behind them. As it came above the treetops, the redness followed And then, …….
